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4th person pronoun? (startrek.website)
submitted 9 months ago by The_Picard_Maneuver@startrek.website to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works
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[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 23 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Fourth person

Doesn't exist. We/us is first person plural. Some languages have a little complexity here (e.g. Tagalog has "kami" which means "we without you" and "tayo" which means "we with you," but they're both still first person plurals).

  • first person - speaker
  • second person - audience excluding speaker
  • third person - everything else
[–] superduperenigma@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Some linguists disagree and have recently begun accepting the existence of a fourth person point of view. Languages evolve, and I guess we'll just have to see if it catches on and becomes more widely accepted in the future.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago

I'll have to look into that, and I'd appreciate why sources you have handy.